Word: demonism
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...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
...besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour of Lady Jersey...
...Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...himself has been one of the first to grant the colored musician equal opportunity to star in the big time. Ever since Teddy Wilson joined him in 1935 he has had one or more Negroes occupying important places in his organization. Wilson and Lionel Hampton, the versatile vibraphonist and demon of the two-fingered piano, both gained so much publicity that they have now broken off and launched their own bands. And now Charlie Christians and Cootie Williams, two other colored virtuosi, are performing with Goodman's sextet...
Evangelist Sam Morris, the "Voice of Temperance," radio prohibitionist. His strongest card: a letter written by Morris Sheppard before his death, praising Sam Morris' fight against the Demon...